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Archive for January, 2009

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Street Fighter IV for the Microsoft Xbox 360 has a total of 47 Achievements worth a total of 100 0 Gamerpoints. Street Fighter IV achievements are listed in the format of Achievement Name – Gamerpoints – Achievement Details: • 10 Years Too Early — 20 : Win 50 Xbox LIVE battles. • 10 Years Too [...]

Categories: Xbox - 360
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PC players rejoice; Bioware says an omnibus patch for Mass Effect is in the works. While not specifying its content just yet, it’ll likely address issues discussed on the Bioware forums. Bioware community dude Chris Priestly said they’ve been observing “the different Mass Effect PC forum communities” and gathering feedback. Both BioWare and Demiurge will [...]

Categories: PC
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Activision’s DJ Hero, a widely-rumored music game supported by a turntable peripheral, is set to release this year, says CEO Bobby Kotick. Speaking at the Davos World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Kotick responded to CNBC reporters’ questions about innovation in the games business by touting the upcoming product. “We have this product called DJ Hero [...]

Categories: PC
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Bethesda Softworks‘ campaign to incrementally squeeze money from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion players has been a huge success. So much so that offering up downloadable horse armor wasn’t the flop it should have been. In fact, the infamous “Horse Armor” download for Oblivion, released in April of 2006, ranked ninth on the top ten [...]

Categories: Games
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EA have hit the big, red reset button on the Need For Speed franchise. As we heard, three new games are coming. No, wait. Seems there are four new games coming. Blackbox – despite recent layoffs – still have the manpower and the time to work on not just NFS: World Online, but a “future [...]

Categories: PC
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EA plans to publish three separate new Need for Speed games in 2009, each tailored to specific formats and featuring a radical change of focus from previous titles. In previews with a number of consumer websites, including GameSpot and Eurogamer, EA revealed new title Need for Speed: Shift for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC [...]

Categories: PC
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It’s clear that High Voltage Software are excited about the ability of The Conduit, their upcoming first-person shooter geared for hardcore gamers, to ratchet the Wii’s technology several notches past what it’s previously pulled off. At a recent hands-on demo, the game’s art director, Matt Corso, was dropping all kinds of techie jargon into my [...]

Categories: Wii
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Getting sales data for the PC market is hard. The NPD Group try, but they don’t cover digital downloads, so there are big holes in their data. Enter Rock Paper Shotgun’s ginormous reader survey. In an effort to try and get a sense of how many PC purchases are of the digital variety, the PC-focused [...]

Categories: PC